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Chicago examiner vol x no 41 a m wednesday Chicago february 7 1912 16 pages wednesday rtjistfred in pripp oivjf cfnt delivered by carrier o s patent office rr\iv whl v-x..n 1 sb (._â€ž,, per â€ž_â€ž,â€ž intervention by u.s.impendsas revolt crows in mexico 36,000 u s troops ready to start for border at an hour's notice Taft watch ing the situation closely sen orozco is reported to have deserted madero m chihuahua ready to lead revolution of his own zapata and his followers m control m morelos guerrero and puebla and brigands . loot state of durango washington d c feb 6 follow j lag a conference between president Taft i secretary of state knox and secretary of i war stimsou to-day it became kuowu that not only is the situation m mexico far more serious than has as yet been an j nounced but that armed intervention by : % the united states is extremely probable from official sources it was learned that the activity of this government is due to the following official information a report that general orozco has de serted the federal government and is about to declare bimseif dictator of chihuahua threat of a declaration of independence by the state assembly of chihuahua news i bat hie followers of zapata audi his associate salgado are iv authority iv the states of morelos guerrero and faebl riotous brigandage m the isratc of bn evidcut inability of the madero govern ment to make progress toward putting down any of giese uprisings which repre sent four different and distinct revolutions affect most of country the activities of the revolutionists affect the ireater part of mexico extending far to the sooth of mexico city and on the north lear to the american border it was staled unofficially to-day that the ad i ministration is inclined to regard madero's governmej t as impotent and entertains little hope of early peace in reply to a request for information secretarj stimson informed the president that 36,000 tuen of the regular army can be started towards the kio grande on an hour's notice iv less time than that if the emergency arises two regiments of cavalry cau be moved to the support of colonel steeyer's fourth regiment now doing patrol duty along the mexican border at the conclusion of the conference the president announced that he was watch ing closely for any act on the part of xexico which might jeopardize the lives j and property of americans orozco defection serious ten brigades of infantry oavalry and field artillery with the necessary allot ment of signal corps and engineer detach ments arc all ready to move this is the result of the order issued by the avar de partment to all commanders yesterday di recting them to put their troops iv readi . ness to take the field the most important and significant news from mexico is the defection of oro-co who has been in command of the madero troops m chihuahua and the report that the yasquestas and the few followers of zapnta m the northeastern part of mexico are banding together to take up the orozco banner the whereabouts of dr emilio vas.ue gomez the nominal head of the v'asques tas is unknown the uncertainty of af fairs m chihuahua is illustrated by the fact that the representatives of tho fed era government who arc still holding of fices m the state are without substantial support and arc afraid to appeal to mexico city for relief el paso texas feb g general tag j cal orozco has been installed as jovernor of the state of chihuahua to-day accord ing to passengers arriving here ou the first train to reach juarez since wednes day xo demonstration attended the in auguration or the arrival iv chihuahua of the mutinous garrison diaz is called for special cable to the examiner mexico city feb 6 with several j revolutions boiling m various part of mex ico and fighting going on between the rebel forces and the federal troops president madero stated to-ulght that the country was at peace while his cabinet member's have declined it is understood to carry but his orders a section of the people m the city of mexico are demanding that porfirio diaz the deposed president or francisco de la barra his chief of staff who has also left tha country return and assume the go eminent a strip of territory 200 miles wide and running through the republic from the pa cific to the gulf of mexico is alone loyal to madero entrance of hearst into south approved by at r anta journal southern paper welcomes him be cause of purchase of the georgian atlanta ga feb fi â€” commenting ou the purchase of the atlanta georgian by william randolph hearst the atlanta journal ihis afternoon published the fol lowing editorial in having purchased the atlanta georgian which he will henceforth op erate as a part of his circuit of papers william kandolph hearst has recog nized the vital role this city and state and section now play in the life of the common country his action is m ii ue with that of capitalists and investors the nation over who have come to discern m the south i land the union's most fertile field of opportunity and profit it is another omen that southward lies the course of progress and development mr hearst now conducts newspapers m new york boston Chicago los an geles and san francisco it is his an nounced policy to devote his latest ac quisition the georgian to the upbuild ing of this city and state and section in this spirit he will be welcome it is a distinctive tribute to the prestige and growth of atlanta that it has en listed the interest of such a newspaper enterprise it is our cordial wish that the advent of mr hearst may truly work for the welfare of atlanta and of the whoio south new old masters 25 reproducer hopes to end inroads of american collectors ssscial cable to tha examiner london feb 6 to end the hunt for oij masters by american collectors is the ambition of henry percy thompson who is going to the united states m a few days for the purpose of exploiting his new process of reproducing pictures he claims he can reproduce by his new method at a cost of s>23 to 50 any old master not only exact iv detailand color bnt also iv the peculiarity of treatment and technique color photography is a part of the process and the rest is thompson's secret s girl breaks jump record mary f glass of vincennes leaps 6 feet 7 inches vincennes ind feb g robert xi glass a vincennes milliner was to-day notified that his daughter mary frances glass broke the world's record m the high ring jump at 5 feet 7 inches at national park seminary washington the previous world's record of 6 feet 2 inches was made last year at paris france by miss made line mcquinnin who yesterday failed to equal her own record m competition with miss glass captive in court escapes prisoner steps from spring ield building jury locked up springfield 111 feb 6 while the jury trial of j m green held as a forger was in progress m the circuit court here this afternoon the prisoner slipped out of the courtroom during a dispute between the attorneys there was wild confusion m the courtroomwhen it was discovered that green had disappeared sheriffs deputies and police officers have searched the city m vain the jury was ordered locked up pending the search john hays hammond safe los angeles cal feb 6.-after a business trip m sonora mexico john hays hammond the noted engineer arrived m los angeles to-day in his private car and is stopping to-night at the virginia hotel m long beach sir hammond emphat ically denied that he had been sent on a special mission to mexico by president Taft or that his vl6it had anything what ever to do with the present troubles m that country secretary wilson is named in land fraud house to investigate charge florida everglades report was suppressed jtwo engineers dismissed j | they had examined property held for sale by several speculators wa.shimitox feb fi charges of sup [ pressed reports and influence of land spec ulators over government officials arc to be investigated by the house committee on expenditures m th department of agri culture the investigation will involve or ders by secretary wilson and solicitor mccabe | circumstances smoldering for months re latinc to exploitation of florida everglade lands millions of acres of which have been sold throughout the country by syndicates m the last few years burst itlto a flame before the committee to-day ] the outbreak followiil the summary tus i missal from government service by secre tary wilson lust saturday of c g elli ott chief engineer of the drainage division ot the department nnd assistant engineer a d morehouse and the suspension of 1 e singleton an accountant on a tech nical charge of transference of public funds charge speculators influence representatives frank clark of florida and b r bat-rick of ohio who liave insti gated the investigation charged before the congressional committee that officials of the department of agriculture had been in fluenced by florida everglade laud promo ters m the suppression of a report on the condition of the lands made by the drain age department thai bief bngineer elliott was threatened by agents of the land promoters unless lie would revise a circular letter to slit public which did not contain laudatory references to the lauds they were selline ami that upon his re fusal the circular ami a subsequent fuller report were suppressed by the order of secretary wilson ami that later kugineers elliott and morehouse were removed from office / solicitor mccabe who wis called before the house committee denied that the dis missal of the department officials was m any way caused by the florida laud case mccabe explains action . he declared that the reason secretary wilson bad ordered tbal the report on the everglades lie nm printed was because the engineers m the drainage department were so ai variance iv the matter mr clark said that he and four florida ci â€” â€” ns tilled on secretary wilson to ask why ihe report was suppressed one of these men was w k hardee of jeuseu fla ho recently made i statement that secretary wilson said i am not running this office for the pro tection of fools who do not know any bet ter than to buy something that they never saw add do not know anything about mrs guggenheim in hiding in Chicago to fight divorce case petit halted reopened mrs grace brown guggenheim wahl mrs william guggenheim 5 firemen overcome 22 are near death wails fall on south water street seyferlich suffers injury to hip five firemen were overcome by smoke m a fire at 71 south water street that did ifujo.ooo damage last night and nearly brought about a repetition of the loss of life that marked the stock yards fire a year ago fire marshal seyferlich with deputy marshal ot'ounor was standing at the rear of the burning building with twenty firemen working within a few feet of them when with a warning crack the brick wall bulged out and collapsed at the first crack of danger seyferlich shouted to his men and all raced for safety luckily the top of the wall caved m and the firemen managed to escape injury from the flying bricks marshal seyferlich fell and sustained an injury to his left hip by falling on a slip pery pavement he was able to continue m command shortly before the wall cased m chief pearce of ltattalion 12 was working on the top story when the floor collapsed pearee shouted as he went down and truckmen brandt and scanlon of truck no 0 went to his rescue they found that his fall had been stopped at the third story where the flooring had not beeu burned through and extricated him trom his perilous position the ambrosia chocolate cream company another occupant of the building waÃŸ wrecked by the fire and water isaac ambrosia is the proprietor gen j b weaver is dead des moines feb 6 general james b weaver populist candidate for presi dent m 181*1 died at the home of relatives here to-day he was eighty years old he had beeu ill only a few days first wife of smelter king to make bitter battle to test decree | miss grace brown guggenheim wahl i whose suit to annul the decree of divorce granted m her favor against william gug 1 genheim of the smelter trust became of nation-wide interest when judge adelor j i petit of the circuit court last december , suddenly anuoiineed lhat he had been an proached is m the city she is here to attend the hearing of the suit this morning before judge windes to whose jurisdiction the case was transferred after judge petit's startling announcement to the attorneys m the case mrs guggen heim wahl arrived here yesterday and last night she was m hiding either at some hotel or iv the home of friends her counsel charles j trainor of 155 north | clark street declined even to admit the presence here of the woman whose marital battles bave caused a sensation on two continents if mrs guggenheim is here said mr trainor guardedly last night she is here merely m case the other side raises any question of fact when flte case comes np i do not want her to make any statement prior to the case being called for trial the announcement of judge petit ac companied by no detailed explanation of who approached hlni or by what method caused a profound seusution there were many guesses as to the exact nature of the influence attempted on the judge ru mor whispered of affairs political whlcii had to do with tiie alaskan conservation question even ward politics m Chicago were suggested as factors m this curious case lorimer is involved one of the strongest rumors wns that influence had beeu brought to bear upon the jurist through his connections with senator lorimer as the latter was aided m his fight for vindication m the united states senate by simon guggenheim of colorado william gugenheini ihe defend ant m this suit is the youngest of the guggenheim brothers and he is a brother ef senator guggenheim judge petit lias remained mute since the case was trans ferred to judge windes and calmly turned his attention to other cases not alone because of the dramatic trans fer of the suit to judge windes court however has interest centered m this case the financial prominence of the'guggen heim family and the subsequent marriage of both parties to the suit entailing as it does endless legal complications is likely to cause the suit of mrs guggenheim wahl to stand out as unique m the history of cases of this kind the struggle which opens this morning is expected to be only the beginning of a legal battle that will be taken eventually to the highest jurisdic tion m the land mrs guggenheim wahl is now about 40 to 50 labdr chiefs inricted arrests in 1 8 states this week four of accused are in Chicago il dynamite investigation at in !; dianapolis ends m many j charges against union |! leaders all are watched i everyone ever connected with mcnamaras is on the list ;. mcmanigars testimony is ; basis for the accusations ij names closely guarded but ! those suspected here be ;| gin preparations to raise ; huge fund tor defense ij indianapolis ind feb i.-the fed jjeral grand jury which lias been invesrigat iing the mcnamarn bomb outrages returned , j thirty-three indictments before judge an â€¢ jderson this afternoon to-night summonses i are ibein prepared for the arrest of forty ! or fifty labor leaders scattered throughout > eighteen states > the courtroom was packed when herbert c m ulessbrenner foreman of the grand 1 jury lugged the indictments m from ihe 5 jury room iv two bulgiug suit cas^s the Â£ names of those indicted were ordered sup pressed the number of indictments does uot in dicate the number of men indicted as j many are charged with the same offense , m blanket indictments il is known that the history of the mcnamaras has been traced from the time they exploded their first bomb and practically every person connected with them m transporting dyna mite who paid them for their crimes or had knowledge or their operations has been indicted arrest all same hour march il was set as arraiguuietu day and clerks began the work of making cer 3 tilled copies of the indictment and prepar f ing summonses an effort will be mad to arrest every man named at the same hour and nearly every defeudant is now known to be under surveillance iv different ' parts of the country many of the indictments center around i the activities of ortie mcmanigal eon . fessed dynamiter and those who went to r detroit m june 1907 and induced him to become a member of the ravaging band have been indicted implicated by i lie evidence which the i government has speul months m exam ining are believed to be many men active r m the iron workers local unions m v -: rious cities who although well knovn : among members of tbeir own craft are not widely known m the country the i list of men who will be obliged to stand â– trial here however is thought to include i several prominent officials or ex-officials [ of the iron workers who are widely tnowu ' m labor union circles the names of the party of labor leaders 1 who went to boston with mcmanigal m i march 1909 and showed him how to place the deadly alarm-clock arrangement where it would destroy an opera house were i told to the grand jury and all are saw on good authority to have been indicted ' the same party is accused of taking mc manigal to springfield mass where they dynamited a mnnicipal building peoria explosion investigated the Chicago situation was rehearsed t fore the grand jury and the men who dynamited a bridge at peoria and several pieces of uew construction iv cook county are expected to be arrested in this con nection a conspiracy charge is maoe against officials of a cuicago union situ to have pointed out the places to be dyna mited and to have aided ta the transports tiou of dynamite a Chicago man hitherto uuniiamed has been indicted it was be who met mc manigal after be bad partly wrecked on of the plauts of the iroquois iron works at south Chicago and handed him an en velope there is money in that the man told mcmanigal the envelope contained slbo that money is said to hove passed throafh the hands of Chicago labor loaders other j chicagoans are involved ir charges grow ing out of the gathering and handling of | the mcnamara defense fund men who carried dynamite and had part m explosions from boston to los angele have beeu named the charges are chiefly based on tiro violations of the federal statutes one is the statute prohibiting the transportation of dynamite on passenger trains or the shipment of explosives not so labeled th penalty on conviction is not more than eighteen mouths imprisonment and 2,000 for each offense five years is penalty the other char.c is that of conspimey to do an act m violation of the federal statute conviction under this clause car ries a five-year prison term as punishment the conspiracy charge is said to have been made against all except those who hive violated tbe^,4ynamlte law so often n te labor chiefs believed to have been indicted four ne names are added to the list of those whom the govern ment hoped to indict they are red smythe peoria business agent of the iron workers union e a clancy san francisco former member of the executive board of he iron workers union j e mun&ey salt lake city business agent of the iron work ers who with clancy is under in dictment m los angeles others whom the government hoped to indict are frank m ryan Chicago edward n nockels Chicago w e francis Chicago j t butler buffalo h s hocklin detroit m j young boston p a cooley new orleans ed lewis san francisco olaf a tveitmoe san fran cisco j j mcnamara j b mcnamara dave kaplan m a schmidt two conventions split on Taft and roosevelt georgia and florida will send separate delegations to Chicago i'ai.a i'lia fla feb 6 the republican state convention split into two factions to day one body going to another hall where delegates to the national convention were instructed to vote for the nomination of theodore itoosevelt for president the regular administration faction after the departure of the insurgent delegates organized and eiecied delegates to the t.'bi cago convention whom they instructed to vote for the uomiuation of president tall a complete state ticket was nominated by each faction atlanta ga feb 6 the repub licans of georgia held a primary to-day to select delegates to the state conveution to mime delegates to ihe national conven tion and results indicate that the party is badly split between Taft and roosevelt and that there will be a bitter fight when the state convention meets Taft leaders say that the primaries held by the roosevelt supporters were entirely irregular and that the delegates selected have no earthly show of being admitted to the state convention the machinery iv georgia is controlled by the friends of Taft and it is probably true that they will be able to bar the roosevelt delegates from the state convention morse may live for years pardoned banker in sudden recovery from apparently fatal malady atlanta ga feb fi mrs charles w morse admitted to-day that her hus band had practically recovered and stated that they would leave for new york sat urday unless something unfoueseen oc curred there mr morse will remain for some weeks before going to bad xauheim germany for the carbonic acid baths dr a l fowler who was formerly physician at the united states penitentiary and who worked for morse's pardon will ac company the ex-bunker to new york and to europe dr fowler stated to-day that while morse has a slow progressive disease which will kill him ultimately he believes that his rapid improvement indicates that his constitution will overcome the malady and that he will live for years mrs h w Taft a catholic president's sister-in-law has re nounced episcopal faith new york feb fi the times this morning prints a story to the effect that mrs henry w Taft sister-in-law of the president has renounced the episcopal church and been received into the cath olic church first communion was served to the convert recently m the students chapel connected with the rectory of st ignatius loyola church the step taken by mrs Taft is said by her friends to have been long m contemplation years ago she met the eloquent father bernard vaughan and it was through his influ ence largely that she became a convert mme emma eamec ill buffalo feb 6 mme emma eames prima dottnii is confined to her bed at a local hotel suffering from a severe at tack of laryngitis her engagement here jj^^^u canceled continued on 10t<i page 4th coi-^mjm bthh Chicago and vicini tv unset h^>*_i i fed weather v/edneeday and thurs 4ne i day somewhat lower tempera 3k-wm gpw i turn thursday moderate to brisk mm $^> southwesterly winds wednesday be / /- /_\#* a coming northwesterly thursday 'â€¢^ rp.i 1 of i euipera tures yesterday --_._- - 1 average â– .....- 16 repeaters furnish proofs tens of thousands of examiner readers who are interested m real estate find the same names printed over and orer again m connection witb houses and land for sale with properly of various kinds to rent would anj argument er persna sion of the examiner itself induce an advertiser to come back into the paper if it did uot produce results m the beginning an alphabet m big capitals is not plainer than the benefit derived from Chicago examiner want ads wa.jt ad office no 9 west madison street jost west of state street phone mÂ»in 5000 automatic sign the association of american adver tisers has examined and certified to the circulation of this publication the figures of circulation contained m the association's report only are guaranteed 4_-octafion of american advertisers no 2300 whitehall bldg n y city

Chicago examiner vol x no 41 a m wednesday Chicago february 7 1912 16 pages wednesday rtjistfred in pripp oivjf cfnt delivered by carrier o s patent office rr\iv whl v-x..n 1 sb (._â€ž,, per â€ž_â€ž,â€ž intervention by u.s.impendsas revolt crows in mexico 36,000 u s troops ready to start for border at an hour's notice Taft watch ing the situation closely sen orozco is reported to have deserted madero m chihuahua ready to lead revolution of his own zapata and his followers m control m morelos guerrero and puebla and brigands . loot state of durango washington d c feb 6 follow j lag a conference between president Taft i secretary of state knox and secretary of i war stimsou to-day it became kuowu that not only is the situation m mexico far more serious than has as yet been an j nounced but that armed intervention by : % the united states is extremely probable from official sources it was learned that the activity of this government is due to the following official information a report that general orozco has de serted the federal government and is about to declare bimseif dictator of chihuahua threat of a declaration of independence by the state assembly of chihuahua news i bat hie followers of zapata audi his associate salgado are iv authority iv the states of morelos guerrero and faebl riotous brigandage m the isratc of bn evidcut inability of the madero govern ment to make progress toward putting down any of giese uprisings which repre sent four different and distinct revolutions affect most of country the activities of the revolutionists affect the ireater part of mexico extending far to the sooth of mexico city and on the north lear to the american border it was staled unofficially to-day that the ad i ministration is inclined to regard madero's governmej t as impotent and entertains little hope of early peace in reply to a request for information secretarj stimson informed the president that 36,000 tuen of the regular army can be started towards the kio grande on an hour's notice iv less time than that if the emergency arises two regiments of cavalry cau be moved to the support of colonel steeyer's fourth regiment now doing patrol duty along the mexican border at the conclusion of the conference the president announced that he was watch ing closely for any act on the part of xexico which might jeopardize the lives j and property of americans orozco defection serious ten brigades of infantry oavalry and field artillery with the necessary allot ment of signal corps and engineer detach ments arc all ready to move this is the result of the order issued by the avar de partment to all commanders yesterday di recting them to put their troops iv readi . ness to take the field the most important and significant news from mexico is the defection of oro-co who has been in command of the madero troops m chihuahua and the report that the yasquestas and the few followers of zapnta m the northeastern part of mexico are banding together to take up the orozco banner the whereabouts of dr emilio vas.ue gomez the nominal head of the v'asques tas is unknown the uncertainty of af fairs m chihuahua is illustrated by the fact that the representatives of tho fed era government who arc still holding of fices m the state are without substantial support and arc afraid to appeal to mexico city for relief el paso texas feb g general tag j cal orozco has been installed as jovernor of the state of chihuahua to-day accord ing to passengers arriving here ou the first train to reach juarez since wednes day xo demonstration attended the in auguration or the arrival iv chihuahua of the mutinous garrison diaz is called for special cable to the examiner mexico city feb 6 with several j revolutions boiling m various part of mex ico and fighting going on between the rebel forces and the federal troops president madero stated to-ulght that the country was at peace while his cabinet member's have declined it is understood to carry but his orders a section of the people m the city of mexico are demanding that porfirio diaz the deposed president or francisco de la barra his chief of staff who has also left tha country return and assume the go eminent a strip of territory 200 miles wide and running through the republic from the pa cific to the gulf of mexico is alone loyal to madero entrance of hearst into south approved by at r anta journal southern paper welcomes him be cause of purchase of the georgian atlanta ga feb fi â€” commenting ou the purchase of the atlanta georgian by william randolph hearst the atlanta journal ihis afternoon published the fol lowing editorial in having purchased the atlanta georgian which he will henceforth op erate as a part of his circuit of papers william kandolph hearst has recog nized the vital role this city and state and section now play in the life of the common country his action is m ii ue with that of capitalists and investors the nation over who have come to discern m the south i land the union's most fertile field of opportunity and profit it is another omen that southward lies the course of progress and development mr hearst now conducts newspapers m new york boston Chicago los an geles and san francisco it is his an nounced policy to devote his latest ac quisition the georgian to the upbuild ing of this city and state and section in this spirit he will be welcome it is a distinctive tribute to the prestige and growth of atlanta that it has en listed the interest of such a newspaper enterprise it is our cordial wish that the advent of mr hearst may truly work for the welfare of atlanta and of the whoio south new old masters 25 reproducer hopes to end inroads of american collectors ssscial cable to tha examiner london feb 6 to end the hunt for oij masters by american collectors is the ambition of henry percy thompson who is going to the united states m a few days for the purpose of exploiting his new process of reproducing pictures he claims he can reproduce by his new method at a cost of s>23 to 50 any old master not only exact iv detailand color bnt also iv the peculiarity of treatment and technique color photography is a part of the process and the rest is thompson's secret s girl breaks jump record mary f glass of vincennes leaps 6 feet 7 inches vincennes ind feb g robert xi glass a vincennes milliner was to-day notified that his daughter mary frances glass broke the world's record m the high ring jump at 5 feet 7 inches at national park seminary washington the previous world's record of 6 feet 2 inches was made last year at paris france by miss made line mcquinnin who yesterday failed to equal her own record m competition with miss glass captive in court escapes prisoner steps from spring ield building jury locked up springfield 111 feb 6 while the jury trial of j m green held as a forger was in progress m the circuit court here this afternoon the prisoner slipped out of the courtroom during a dispute between the attorneys there was wild confusion m the courtroomwhen it was discovered that green had disappeared sheriffs deputies and police officers have searched the city m vain the jury was ordered locked up pending the search john hays hammond safe los angeles cal feb 6.-after a business trip m sonora mexico john hays hammond the noted engineer arrived m los angeles to-day in his private car and is stopping to-night at the virginia hotel m long beach sir hammond emphat ically denied that he had been sent on a special mission to mexico by president Taft or that his vl6it had anything what ever to do with the present troubles m that country secretary wilson is named in land fraud house to investigate charge florida everglades report was suppressed jtwo engineers dismissed j | they had examined property held for sale by several speculators wa.shimitox feb fi charges of sup [ pressed reports and influence of land spec ulators over government officials arc to be investigated by the house committee on expenditures m th department of agri culture the investigation will involve or ders by secretary wilson and solicitor mccabe | circumstances smoldering for months re latinc to exploitation of florida everglade lands millions of acres of which have been sold throughout the country by syndicates m the last few years burst itlto a flame before the committee to-day ] the outbreak followiil the summary tus i missal from government service by secre tary wilson lust saturday of c g elli ott chief engineer of the drainage division ot the department nnd assistant engineer a d morehouse and the suspension of 1 e singleton an accountant on a tech nical charge of transference of public funds charge speculators influence representatives frank clark of florida and b r bat-rick of ohio who liave insti gated the investigation charged before the congressional committee that officials of the department of agriculture had been in fluenced by florida everglade laud promo ters m the suppression of a report on the condition of the lands made by the drain age department thai bief bngineer elliott was threatened by agents of the land promoters unless lie would revise a circular letter to slit public which did not contain laudatory references to the lauds they were selline ami that upon his re fusal the circular ami a subsequent fuller report were suppressed by the order of secretary wilson ami that later kugineers elliott and morehouse were removed from office / solicitor mccabe who wis called before the house committee denied that the dis missal of the department officials was m any way caused by the florida laud case mccabe explains action . he declared that the reason secretary wilson bad ordered tbal the report on the everglades lie nm printed was because the engineers m the drainage department were so ai variance iv the matter mr clark said that he and four florida ci â€” â€” ns tilled on secretary wilson to ask why ihe report was suppressed one of these men was w k hardee of jeuseu fla ho recently made i statement that secretary wilson said i am not running this office for the pro tection of fools who do not know any bet ter than to buy something that they never saw add do not know anything about mrs guggenheim in hiding in Chicago to fight divorce case petit halted reopened mrs grace brown guggenheim wahl mrs william guggenheim 5 firemen overcome 22 are near death wails fall on south water street seyferlich suffers injury to hip five firemen were overcome by smoke m a fire at 71 south water street that did ifujo.ooo damage last night and nearly brought about a repetition of the loss of life that marked the stock yards fire a year ago fire marshal seyferlich with deputy marshal ot'ounor was standing at the rear of the burning building with twenty firemen working within a few feet of them when with a warning crack the brick wall bulged out and collapsed at the first crack of danger seyferlich shouted to his men and all raced for safety luckily the top of the wall caved m and the firemen managed to escape injury from the flying bricks marshal seyferlich fell and sustained an injury to his left hip by falling on a slip pery pavement he was able to continue m command shortly before the wall cased m chief pearce of ltattalion 12 was working on the top story when the floor collapsed pearee shouted as he went down and truckmen brandt and scanlon of truck no 0 went to his rescue they found that his fall had been stopped at the third story where the flooring had not beeu burned through and extricated him trom his perilous position the ambrosia chocolate cream company another occupant of the building waÃŸ wrecked by the fire and water isaac ambrosia is the proprietor gen j b weaver is dead des moines feb 6 general james b weaver populist candidate for presi dent m 181*1 died at the home of relatives here to-day he was eighty years old he had beeu ill only a few days first wife of smelter king to make bitter battle to test decree | miss grace brown guggenheim wahl i whose suit to annul the decree of divorce granted m her favor against william gug 1 genheim of the smelter trust became of nation-wide interest when judge adelor j i petit of the circuit court last december , suddenly anuoiineed lhat he had been an proached is m the city she is here to attend the hearing of the suit this morning before judge windes to whose jurisdiction the case was transferred after judge petit's startling announcement to the attorneys m the case mrs guggen heim wahl arrived here yesterday and last night she was m hiding either at some hotel or iv the home of friends her counsel charles j trainor of 155 north | clark street declined even to admit the presence here of the woman whose marital battles bave caused a sensation on two continents if mrs guggenheim is here said mr trainor guardedly last night she is here merely m case the other side raises any question of fact when flte case comes np i do not want her to make any statement prior to the case being called for trial the announcement of judge petit ac companied by no detailed explanation of who approached hlni or by what method caused a profound seusution there were many guesses as to the exact nature of the influence attempted on the judge ru mor whispered of affairs political whlcii had to do with tiie alaskan conservation question even ward politics m Chicago were suggested as factors m this curious case lorimer is involved one of the strongest rumors wns that influence had beeu brought to bear upon the jurist through his connections with senator lorimer as the latter was aided m his fight for vindication m the united states senate by simon guggenheim of colorado william gugenheini ihe defend ant m this suit is the youngest of the guggenheim brothers and he is a brother ef senator guggenheim judge petit lias remained mute since the case was trans ferred to judge windes and calmly turned his attention to other cases not alone because of the dramatic trans fer of the suit to judge windes court however has interest centered m this case the financial prominence of the'guggen heim family and the subsequent marriage of both parties to the suit entailing as it does endless legal complications is likely to cause the suit of mrs guggenheim wahl to stand out as unique m the history of cases of this kind the struggle which opens this morning is expected to be only the beginning of a legal battle that will be taken eventually to the highest jurisdic tion m the land mrs guggenheim wahl is now about 40 to 50 labdr chiefs inricted arrests in 1 8 states this week four of accused are in Chicago il dynamite investigation at in !; dianapolis ends m many j charges against union |! leaders all are watched i everyone ever connected with mcnamaras is on the list ;. mcmanigars testimony is ; basis for the accusations ij names closely guarded but ! those suspected here be ;| gin preparations to raise ; huge fund tor defense ij indianapolis ind feb i.-the fed jjeral grand jury which lias been invesrigat iing the mcnamarn bomb outrages returned , j thirty-three indictments before judge an â€¢ jderson this afternoon to-night summonses i are ibein prepared for the arrest of forty ! or fifty labor leaders scattered throughout > eighteen states > the courtroom was packed when herbert c m ulessbrenner foreman of the grand 1 jury lugged the indictments m from ihe 5 jury room iv two bulgiug suit cas^s the Â£ names of those indicted were ordered sup pressed the number of indictments does uot in dicate the number of men indicted as j many are charged with the same offense , m blanket indictments il is known that the history of the mcnamaras has been traced from the time they exploded their first bomb and practically every person connected with them m transporting dyna mite who paid them for their crimes or had knowledge or their operations has been indicted arrest all same hour march il was set as arraiguuietu day and clerks began the work of making cer 3 tilled copies of the indictment and prepar f ing summonses an effort will be mad to arrest every man named at the same hour and nearly every defeudant is now known to be under surveillance iv different ' parts of the country many of the indictments center around i the activities of ortie mcmanigal eon . fessed dynamiter and those who went to r detroit m june 1907 and induced him to become a member of the ravaging band have been indicted implicated by i lie evidence which the i government has speul months m exam ining are believed to be many men active r m the iron workers local unions m v -: rious cities who although well knovn : among members of tbeir own craft are not widely known m the country the i list of men who will be obliged to stand â– trial here however is thought to include i several prominent officials or ex-officials [ of the iron workers who are widely tnowu ' m labor union circles the names of the party of labor leaders 1 who went to boston with mcmanigal m i march 1909 and showed him how to place the deadly alarm-clock arrangement where it would destroy an opera house were i told to the grand jury and all are saw on good authority to have been indicted ' the same party is accused of taking mc manigal to springfield mass where they dynamited a mnnicipal building peoria explosion investigated the Chicago situation was rehearsed t fore the grand jury and the men who dynamited a bridge at peoria and several pieces of uew construction iv cook county are expected to be arrested in this con nection a conspiracy charge is maoe against officials of a cuicago union situ to have pointed out the places to be dyna mited and to have aided ta the transports tiou of dynamite a Chicago man hitherto uuniiamed has been indicted it was be who met mc manigal after be bad partly wrecked on of the plauts of the iroquois iron works at south Chicago and handed him an en velope there is money in that the man told mcmanigal the envelope contained slbo that money is said to hove passed throafh the hands of Chicago labor loaders other j chicagoans are involved ir charges grow ing out of the gathering and handling of | the mcnamara defense fund men who carried dynamite and had part m explosions from boston to los angele have beeu named the charges are chiefly based on tiro violations of the federal statutes one is the statute prohibiting the transportation of dynamite on passenger trains or the shipment of explosives not so labeled th penalty on conviction is not more than eighteen mouths imprisonment and 2,000 for each offense five years is penalty the other char.c is that of conspimey to do an act m violation of the federal statute conviction under this clause car ries a five-year prison term as punishment the conspiracy charge is said to have been made against all except those who hive violated tbe^,4ynamlte law so often n te labor chiefs believed to have been indicted four ne names are added to the list of those whom the govern ment hoped to indict they are red smythe peoria business agent of the iron workers union e a clancy san francisco former member of the executive board of he iron workers union j e mun&ey salt lake city business agent of the iron work ers who with clancy is under in dictment m los angeles others whom the government hoped to indict are frank m ryan Chicago edward n nockels Chicago w e francis Chicago j t butler buffalo h s hocklin detroit m j young boston p a cooley new orleans ed lewis san francisco olaf a tveitmoe san fran cisco j j mcnamara j b mcnamara dave kaplan m a schmidt two conventions split on Taft and roosevelt georgia and florida will send separate delegations to Chicago i'ai.a i'lia fla feb 6 the republican state convention split into two factions to day one body going to another hall where delegates to the national convention were instructed to vote for the nomination of theodore itoosevelt for president the regular administration faction after the departure of the insurgent delegates organized and eiecied delegates to the t.'bi cago convention whom they instructed to vote for the uomiuation of president tall a complete state ticket was nominated by each faction atlanta ga feb 6 the repub licans of georgia held a primary to-day to select delegates to the state conveution to mime delegates to ihe national conven tion and results indicate that the party is badly split between Taft and roosevelt and that there will be a bitter fight when the state convention meets Taft leaders say that the primaries held by the roosevelt supporters were entirely irregular and that the delegates selected have no earthly show of being admitted to the state convention the machinery iv georgia is controlled by the friends of Taft and it is probably true that they will be able to bar the roosevelt delegates from the state convention morse may live for years pardoned banker in sudden recovery from apparently fatal malady atlanta ga feb fi mrs charles w morse admitted to-day that her hus band had practically recovered and stated that they would leave for new york sat urday unless something unfoueseen oc curred there mr morse will remain for some weeks before going to bad xauheim germany for the carbonic acid baths dr a l fowler who was formerly physician at the united states penitentiary and who worked for morse's pardon will ac company the ex-bunker to new york and to europe dr fowler stated to-day that while morse has a slow progressive disease which will kill him ultimately he believes that his rapid improvement indicates that his constitution will overcome the malady and that he will live for years mrs h w Taft a catholic president's sister-in-law has re nounced episcopal faith new york feb fi the times this morning prints a story to the effect that mrs henry w Taft sister-in-law of the president has renounced the episcopal church and been received into the cath olic church first communion was served to the convert recently m the students chapel connected with the rectory of st ignatius loyola church the step 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